One of the things discussed was ‘Action Items’ which are simple tasks we need to do, as a group or individuals! Support’s are interesting. Support is bigger than just Forums/IRC/StackEchange (where I feel I excel). To that end, we’re going to branch out and people will become the lead for subgroups. First up?

New Leads

General Support Lead: Mika

Group “Leads”:

Forums: Mika & Jan

Codex: Andrea R

Handbooks: Siobhan

Teach: Christine

Now don’t panic. I’m not leaving, but one of the many issues with the team reps is we’re spread too thin, and I need to do a little less to get more done. Anything not named directly falls under ‘support’, so even though I consider Rarst to be the StackExchange lead, it’d probably go through me for now.

These people were picked based on current activity in their fields, as well as their passions. This is our first step, however, and by no means the only or the final, so I’m sure things will continue to grow and change. I’m still the ‘lead’ here, so if you need a big stick, I’m a tweet/email away!

Also leads is really not the right word here. They’re just ‘People who are going to seed groups as they branch off into their own.’ Obviously teaching and documentation aren’t ‘support’ and really don’t belong here at all. More sites coming soon? Oh yes.

To Do List

Moving the Handbooks to learn.wordpress.org – Yeah! That’s the new home! As soon as we have learn sorted out (@nacin knows) we’ll get this going.

Videos, videos, videos! This will probably branch off on it’s own, but we want to include videos. If you’re interested in reviewing videos, we’re going to be collecting names etc soon to help out on wordpress.tv – Be aware, this will be a lot of work, but even if you can view one or two videos a day, we’re golden. Andrea M will be in on this, don’t worry.

Teaching. For this we have Christine, who will be in charge of our collecting, reviewing, and posting on learn. More on that as soon as we sort out the learn sites with @nacin (probably learn.wordpress.org/teach)

Pulling in info from the codex to learn, and leaving the codex as more ‘for developers’ and learn as ‘how to’ will be lead by Andrea R, and to that end I added in a ‘Hey cool person!’ message at the bottom of every codex page when you edit it.

Attribution (Credit, Etc.)

I sat in on ‘Non-Code Contributions to WordPress’ and took notes about the different ways people contribute to core (of which the folks here are a major one). Nacin and I also sat down and banged about the best way to separate the people who code from the people who are awesome in non-code ways, because they are different and deserve different recognition. First of all, we’re going to clarify the ‘Credits’ page on WP installs to make it clear that’s for code contributions — this is in-line with how other Open-Source products handle that. Then we’re going to sort out the best way to do an ‘about’ page to include the community.

Rest assured, you are all really hugely important, and if you every feel like you’re not valued, know this: Thank you. All of you. Even if you did one thing this year, you helped. I appreciate you all.

Other Things…

Some of the topics you asked me to bring up I did, and they will show up in the other Make Blogs, so stay tuned to how we change up the front page of Make. Don’t forget to check out Make Meta while you’re at it!

I may be missing things, and someALL of this is in flux. Remember, release then iterate!

As I said in the email I just sent to the docs list, I’m interested in contributing more actively to the docs group. It sounds like I may just want to hit up Andrea and/or Lorelle on what’s next and how to go about it. Thank you Mika and Andrea for your extra effort at the Summit. I hear the pumpkin muffins were pretty awesome.

HI Al, I just got back from #wpcs and need to catch up on a bunch of things and put an action plan in action. But it’s on my to-do list and I’ve made a note that you want to help. I’ll keep you posted. Just give me a few days.

I just spent a few hours making some edits. I found quite a bit of info that was incorrect so made changes. I also tried to use the same standards from page to page as in use bold instead of “” when highlighting some words. I covered all the pages from 06 to 08 except Multisite. I don’t do Multisite (terminator voice)

Thanks to your hard work, the Guide is good enough for version one! Every page has something. We know we need to fix images, and some sections need expansion. We’ll live.

Since this weekend is the community summit, and I am your rep (how did that happen?), is there anything, no matter how trivial, you think we should address?

I have the following:

Make it harder to break home/site URLs

Get rid of blogs.dir in Multisite, it makes us cry when we have to explain about /files/

More representation/help for Meetups! An official meetup.wordpress.org site? to compete with meetup.com

And that’s it. So what’s really annoying you about WP, be it the forums (and thank you, @otto42 for the (Bozo) tags!) or IRC or anything in the support world you think is wrong/could be better/is perfect. Hey, may as well think about what’s great too!

As WP gets used so heavily as a CMS, it would be nice to have a setting that globally “turns off” discussions on Pages. Lot’s of plugins and themes that offer this, but it would be nice to have in core.

Following on your idea Jerry, I’d actually argue that Pages shouldn’t have discussion features enabled at all within core. Of course an individual theme could re-enable them within the context of that theme, but if they’re going to be off in > 80% of cases it seems like they should be set to off altogether.

I would love to see more help/representation from “official” WP people at my meetups.
However, Meetup.com actually does a great job of promoting my meetup and cross-referencing it with other web related things. If WP sets up its own system, I feel like a lot of this “juice” will be lost and that newbies will never find us at all.

Can we ask the core devs (or whoever) to please think very carefully about releasing the next default theme before the next WP update? I’m getting a little tired or warning people not to edit Twenty Twelve because I’ve no desire to face the outraged hordes that might congregate after the 3.5 update.

Cleanup/Copy Edit

All the pages need to be cleaned up for typos/content. If you have editor access, just fix it. if not, leave a comment. Also I’m going to delete the .com pages soon (like by the end of today), so then we can search for en.wordpress… and see what reeeealy needs a replacement.

Summaries

Top Level Pages need a nice summary.

Next week…

Next week will just be open office hours, and minor cleanups. That weekend is WPCS, which was our goal for finishing Phase 1. Phase 2 is ‘Where do we put the handbook?’ which I suspect will be a beer filled discussion.

I want to help out if I can. I am busy tomorrow at 11 San Diego time but want to come next week. If there are any small tasks I can help to start out with (proofing, reading for “accessibility” or whatever) I am happy to.

We cannot control what sort of information people provide in their WordPress-powered blog. You could complain to their blog host, but the software used to run their website is unrelated to the content.